“Considering what’s going on this week, I thought I’d read you a poem that I wrote last February,” the “Crown” star says into the camera in a video posted on Twitter and published Thursday in The New Yorker.

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“Amazingly enough, the subject of this poem is breaking news this week,” Lithgow, 73, continued. “The poem is called ‘Acosta Agonistes.’”

“But a 10-year-old story leaked out from his past,And yanked him from placid obscurity.His name was attached to a sickening scandal,That shook his serene job security.The law had caught up with a Palm Beach roué,A man of luxurious means.Charged with trafficking, pimping, procuring and rape,Of dozens of underage teens.”

The Tony Award winner — who recently played former President Clinton in Broadway’s “Hillary and Clinton” — goes on:

“The perp, Jeffrey Epstein, deserved to be crushed By Justice’s ruthless iron fist.But the priciest lawyers that money could buy,Got him off with a slap on the wrist.”

He concludes the poem:

“We are living, alas, in the Dumptyan era,Where scandals erupt by the hour.They stir a recurring and queasy sensationA virus, infecting the health of the nation,Brought on by a toxic and foul combinationOf money, perversion and power.”

It’s not the first time that Lithgow has shared his writing inspired by his criticism of Trump. During an April appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show,” Lithgow read another poem from his forthcoming book, “Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse.”